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stemmatics

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Noun1.stemmatics - 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"
stemmatology
arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences"
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That the ancestor of the Hereford family of maps goes back at least to the fifth century is a conclusion demanded by the basic stemmatics of the manuscripts.
Jerusalem as the 'omphalos' of the world: on the history of ... by Alexander, Philip S. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
[15] For an investigation of the function of 'witness' and 'proof ' in the genetic theory of stemmatics, see David Greetham 'Phylum--Tree--Rhizome', Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature, ed.
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