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Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, Paris 15th century

I found this lovely bit of art from a Medieval Manuscript a couple of years ago from @sexycodicology, and made some embroidery designs from it. 

Like here:

And this next one I found greatly amusing:

But while these two bunnies, particularly the axe-wielding one, get a lot of views and compliments, they do not sell very well.  

There are several places to find illuminated manuscripts in the public domain. My favorite is OPenn at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries - I’m a librarian at Penn, though, so I would say that (you’ll do better searching Penn in Hand then getting the images from OPenn). The Digital Walters has the manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum - lots of beautiful stuff, including a lot of non-Western manuscripts. Finally the Getty has an open content program, their interface is easy to search, and they have some really amazing manuscripts.