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stemmatology

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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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