Jack (playing card) warrior) for the Jack of Hearts; Hector (mythological hero of the Iliad) for the jack of diamonds; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the jack of clubs. In some southern Italian decks, there are androgynous knaves that are sometimes referred to as maids. In the Sicilian Tarot deck, the knaves are unambiguously female and are also known as maids. As this deck also includes queens, it is the only traditional set to survive into modern times with two ranks of female face cards. This pack may have been influenced by the obsolete Portuguese deck which also had female knaves. 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