stemmatics

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)

Roots

stemmastemmat- · Greek · pedigree, family tree of manuscripts ikos-ics · Greek · study/system of

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