STEMMATOLOGY
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Stemmatology.
Stemmatology - as a 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)
Example: "Stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"
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stemmaticsExample Sentences
"The study of family trees and genealogy is a branch of stemmatology."
"One of the goals of stemmatology is to determine the most reliable version of a manuscript."
"The stemmatology of ancient manuscripts often involves complex statistical analysis."
"The field of stemmatology has its roots in medieval textual studies."
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