diff --git a/contrib/jenkins-build-manuals.sh b/contrib/jenkins-build-manuals.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..48f7780f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/jenkins-build-manuals.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/sh -ex
+# environment variables:
+# * PUBLISH: upload manuals after building if set to "1"
+
+base="$PWD"
+export OSMO_GSM_MANUALS_DIR="$base/osmo-gsm-manuals"
+
+# Sanity check
+if ! [ -d "$base/doc/manuals" ]; then
+	echo "ERROR: this script needs to be executed from the top dir of osmo-gsm-tester.git."
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+# Clone/update osmo-gsm-manuals and wipe local modifications
+if [ -d "$OSMO_GSM_MANUALS_DIR" ]; then
+	git -C "$OSMO_GSM_MANUALS_DIR" pull
+else
+	git clone "https://git.osmocom.org/osmo-gsm-manuals" "$OSMO_GSM_MANUALS_DIR"
+fi
+git -C "$OSMO_GSM_MANUALS_DIR" checkout -f HEAD
+
+# Copy manuals source to empty temp dir (so we can easily clean up afterwards)
+temp="$base/_manuals_temp"
+if [ -d "$temp" ]; then
+	rm -rf "$temp"
+fi
+cp -r "$base/doc/manuals" "$temp"
+
+# Build the manuals
+cd "$temp"
+make
+make check
+
+# Publish
+if [ "$PUBLISH" = "1" ]; then
+	make publish
+fi
+
+# Clean up
+rm -r "$temp"
diff --git a/contrib/jenkins-make-check-and-run.sh b/contrib/jenkins-make-check-and-run.sh
index 3017fd45..2a9bc825 100755
--- a/contrib/jenkins-make-check-and-run.sh
+++ b/contrib/jenkins-make-check-and-run.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ test -x "$run_script"
 cd osmo-gsm-tester
 make deps
 make check
+./contrib/jenkins-build-manuals.sh
 cd "$base"
 
 PATH="$base/osmo-gsm-tester/src:$PATH" \