Stemmatology

Of humanistic discipline.   May also be referred to as stemmatics.

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".

This concept's ID is @1~33144