Jack (playing card) 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 10 and the queen). As the lowest face (or "court") card, the jack often represents a minimum standard — for example, many poker games require a minimum hand of a pair of jacks ("jacks or better") in order to continue play. 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