stemmatology.n.01

'stemmatology.n.01'

[stemmatology.n.01] as in: 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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Examples:
stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics