Jack (playing card) traditional ranking of cards, where the ace or king generally occupied the first rank. This is seen in the earliest known European card games, such as Karnöffel, as well as in more recent ones such as Euchre. Games with such promotion include: Jack (playing card) A jack or knave is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit, plays as if it was an 11 (that is, between the
Lancelot-Grail manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail are available online at the following locations: The Bibliothèque Nationale de France "Gallica" website lists 10 Lancelot-Grail manuscripts of this work and others containing Arthurian texts, with links to each manuscript. Other manuscripts with images online are: Two British Library manuscripts are fully digitised: For other manuscripts in the British Library collections, descriptions and images are available in the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: Lancelot-Grail The Lancelot-Grail, also known as the Prose "Lancelot", the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend written in French. It is a series of prose volumes