What does stemmatics mean?
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stem·mat·ics
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Princeton's WordNet
stemmatology, stemmaticsnoun
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"
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stemmaticsnoun
The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
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stemmatics
Stemmatics is a method employed in textual criticism to analyze the relationships and descent of versions of a text, particularly manuscripts. It involves the creation of a "family tree" or stemma codicum which visually represents the copying history of the text, identifying points of variation, redactions, errors, or corruptions that happened during the transmission of the text over time.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of stemmatics in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of stemmatics in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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