stemmatology
noun
- Definition
- 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)
- Example
- 'stemmatology' can be found in many classic books.
- Synonyms
- stemmatics
- Etymology
- No etymology available.
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