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)
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stemmatics |
stemmatology |
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"stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology""transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
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