We've dealt with boobs before on lolmanuscripts, but I felt like they needed to make a comeback. Mary looks like she got some bad plast...

Part IV of "Rochester Through the Ages": The Year 3000: Life on Earth has taken a turn for the worse, so Future Rochester makes an...

Part III of "Rochester Through the Ages": 80s Rochester is totally rad! I like to think that he was in a hair metal band, seeing ...

Part II of "Rochester through the ages": 70s Rochester was super glam! I think he would have been best friends with Glam Oscar Wi...

Part I of "Rochester Through the Ages": Pop Wilmot was so far out! He also seems like someone Warhol would/should have been obses...

Black Letter Print really does suck. Really really hard. They totally had roman typeface by the 16th century too, so I don't want to ...

This is a screenshot from my soon to be released video game, Immortal Soul Combat . The concept: the people of the 16th century are sufferi...

I'm back! O Yes! Anyway, I get that the town crier is saying "O Yes" for whatever reason in accordance with his crying respons...

Christmastime is coming! Jesus wants to remind you of something: For the record, I think this image would make a pretty bitchin' album ...

It's been a long semester of studying the Renaissance, and LOL Manuscripts has made a name for itself as mildly humorous amongst a small...

Ambrose Pare was a famous surgeon in the 16th century. I don't know if he was any good, because it seems that his method of "curin...

by Gilbert Burnet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester : Disturbing, Disgusting, or Awesome? I still can't decide. My favoirte story ab...

This ballad (sung to the tune of "the Joviall Tinker"--man I love that song) is actually pretty funny at first. The ratketcher wa...

Seller was one of the first great English mapmakers, and one of the first to publish and sell his maps. He's most famous for nautical ch...

Urban VIII know how to fucking roll! Compare the 1643 version to the notably less terrifying popemobiles of today: Lame. I definitely pref...

From the pamphlet: Then to a Tobacco-house, smoking hot Went I, and call'd for my Pipe and my Pot, The Weed was strong, but hardly well ...

Cassidy did another one!: Apparently Prince Rupert had a magic devil-dog named Boy, who seems to be a 17th century version of Cujo. (P.S. -...

We at LOL Manuscripts are happy to have a special guest blogger with us today...in an unofficial Blog-Off!!! My 13 year old cousin and bl...

Christian martyrs were totally buff in the 15th Century! Sir John Oldcastle was a soldier and Lollard who was convicted of heresy and escap...

This pamphlet (by Walter Lynne) is actually full of weird images of the pope paired with animals. I think I might use it again. Here's ...

"Yo Mama" jokes have a long and varied history in England.

Racism and Stereotyping. As old as recorded history, and pretty funny.

a.k.a. The Sexiest Lol Manuscript ever! The Sexy Backstory: This entire ballad is centered around a "London Lass" who finds herse...

It's Guy Fawkes Day everybody! Lol Manuscripts has addressed Guy Fawkes b efore, but has never given serious attention to the actual Gu...

Full Title: A declaration demonstrating and infallibly proving that all malignants, whether they be prelates, popish-cavaleers, with all ot...

Halloween Scariness: The Tale of the Monstrous German Double Pig, or, Everyone in our Village is Going to Hell. Here's the text that ap...

Witches again! It's almost Halloween after all...and I have a pretty scary one for the actual big day. Here's a manuscript with El...

I really have no idea what this broadside is about, but this is at the center of a huge image in which the sheep seem to have captured a she...

LOL Manuscripts -- For a limited time in T E C H N I C O L O R ! This pamphlet is pretty similar to the earlier entry about the Satanic Ki...