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Stemmatology

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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)

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stemmatics
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Stemmatologies
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