Definition of STEMMATICS

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)
    • "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics"
  • The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

Origin / Etymology

From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).

Synonyms

stemmatology

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Words With Friends Score: 19

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