LOL Manuscripts!: Chirologia, or the Naturall Language of the Hand, 1644

Chirologia, or the Naturall Language of the Hand, 1644:

"Many of you may know of the Internet phenomenon that is LOLCats. Slightly less of you may know how crazy/awesome early modern woodcut illustrations and frontispieces can be. But what joins these two disparate worlds? Well, it may surprise you to know how popular LOL-ing was in the Renaissance."

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