stemmatics
stem·ma·tics
noun
1.
the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
- “stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology”
- “transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics”
Origin
From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).
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