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n. - 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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  • Transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
  • I tend to think that only people doing stemmatics and philology get it right because no claim to the "right" reading can be confirmed or rejected.
  • Indeed, it has not borrowed its concepts from classical stemmatics or even from phylogenetics in biology, which have been tested and found to be robust over many...
  • Extensions of that interest are the various techniques—ranging from capricious guesswork to textual stemmatics to state-of-the-art image processing advances—that...
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