stemmatology

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noun

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
• Syn:
stemmatics
• Hypernyms:
humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts