stemmatology, n.
(stemmatologies)
(stemmatologies)
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)
<noun.cognition>
stemmatics stemmatology
sample sentences
"stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology""transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
semantic pointers
hypernym