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Adj.1.stemmatic - of or relating to a textual stemma


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If we are thinking of the relationships between centres where English was copied, it is pertinent to note that although the persistent linking of these three manuscripts in twentieth-century scholarship is justified by similarity in compilatory style as well as the presence of texts in common, those shared texts do not show the kind of stemmatic closeness t hat links Caligula and Jesus.
In the genealogical or stemmatic method still commonly used in both classical and vernacular traditions to determine the relative authority of such witnesses, their position on a family tree of descent, a witness that relies entirely on the evidence of another which was closer to the scene of the action (the crime or the composition) is dismissed as having no independent authority.
 
 
 
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