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stemmatology
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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…
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noun
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”
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Stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
Transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
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