See Also: stemmatics(dictionary)

stemmatics (iou)



stemmatics noun. M20.
[German Stemmatik, from Latin stemma(t-) STEMMA + -ICS. Cf. STEMMATIC.]
The branch of scholarship that attempts to reconstruct the (esp. manuscript) tradition of texts on the basis of relationships between the variant readings of the surviving witnesses.
Also stemma'tology noun M20.