stemmatology (n)
stemmatics (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 09
def 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)
examples stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
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Hypernym humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
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Hyponym humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts

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