English noun: stemmatology | |||
1. | stemmatology (cognition) 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) | ||
Samples | Stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology. Transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics. | ||
Synonyms | stemmatics | ||
Broader (hypernym) | arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts | ||