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Hey there /u/variouslytalented. I hope I'm not too late to reply to your question. I don't check this sub as often.


To give you an answer: there are no comprehensive courses on this subject that I can think off. However, I think I can give some directions into this topic.


If you want to find images outside a religious context you are most likely to find these in early to late gothic manuscripts. It is in this period that secular art is on the rise, providing you with many images outside of a religious context.


This EdX course provides basic insights into the creation of manuscripts. It also has you go through a few digitized manuscript libraries, which will help you finding these documents in the future.


In regards to books, it highly depends on what kind of reading you want to do. There are large volumes of publications from researchers who have made medieval manuscripts their focus. For example: if you are interested in which techniques and materials were used in the production of manuscripts, this publication is a good (and cheap) starter to get into the topic.

Edit (2):
This Youtube search result contains many interesting videos and channels to get you started.

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Looked at it on [Amazon] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004R1Q296/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1), used the Look Inside feature, and according to the title page it's a detail from Death, One of the Four Riders of the Apocalypse by Pol de Limbourg, from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (see [here] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A8s_Riches_Heures_du_Duc_de_Berry)

So u/deynos74 was right about it being French, and pretty close with late C14th, actually very early C15th, 1412-16 is when it was painted.