eng: stemmatics

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has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/eng/stemmatics

Meaning
means	(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); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" stemmatology, stemmatics