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/stəˈmætɪks/
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/stɛmˈætɪks/
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stəˈmætɪks
Noun
The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
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In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.
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)
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stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology
transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics