| stemmatic | (adj) of or relating to a textual stemma |
| stemmatology | (n) 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), Syn. stemmatics, Example: stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology; transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics |