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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 (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
How To Use stemmatics In A Sentence
- This is not to imply that stemmatics is useless for the New Testament.
- transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics
- 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 different applications. Evangelical Textual Criticism
- Though this aim is old, some of the methods we use - computer collation, techniques of computerised stemmatics borrowed from evolutionary biology, database analysis - are very much of the late twentieth century.
- There appear to be strong analogies between the worlds of stemmatics and systematics.
- It is widely accepted that stemmatics originated in the work of Karl Lachmman.
- This will be followed by instruction in the theory and practice of textual criticism, including 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. Butterflies and Wheels » Latest News
