Eric Millar
Eric George Millar (1887–13 January 1966)[1][2] was the Keeper of Manuscripts from 1944 onwards at the British Museum and a scholar interested in English illuminated manuscripts.
He produced the two-volume work English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century in 1926 and 1928.[3]
In 1934 he gave the Sandars Lectures on bibliography at the University of Cambridge on "Some Aspects of the Comparative Study of Illuminated Manuscripts".
Millar also produced a book on the Lindisfarne Gospels and a two-volume catalogue of the Chester Beatty Papyri.[2]
Millar was a member of the Athenaeum Club.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Eric George Millar". Dictionary of Art Historians.
- 1 2 3 C. E. Wright (1968). "Preface". The British Museum Quarterly. 33 (1): 1–2. doi:10.2307/4423012. JSTOR 4423012.
- ↑ Otto Homburger (1928). "Review: English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century". The Art Bulletin. 10 (4): 399–402. doi:10.2307/3045425. JSTOR 3045425.
