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::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | stemmatology |
| Type of | arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts |
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics.
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Stemmatics, stemmology or stemmatology is a rigorous approach to textual criticism.
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This makes it more like an automated approach to stemmatics.
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The sheer number of witnesses presents unique difficulties, chiefly in that it makes stemmatics impractical.
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There are far fewer witnesses to classical texts than to the Bible, so scholars can use stemmatics and, in some cases, copy text editing.
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In fact, the other techniques can be seen as special cases of stemmatics in which a rigorous family history of the text cannot be determined but only approximated.
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- Stemmatology: 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 ...
- Textual criticism (or lower criticism) is a branch of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Ancient scribes made errors or alterations when copying manuscripts by hand. ...
- T.C. A method of textual criticism based on preparing a family tree of manuscripts (stemma) and evaluating variant readings based on the stemma. Traditional stemmatics has four steps: recension, selection, examination, and emendation. ...
