Stemmatology

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of stemmatics. uncountable
  2. 2
    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) wordnet

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