stemmatics
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From stemma, from Ancient Greek στέμματα (stémmata, “family trees, genealogy”).
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stemmatics (uncountable)
- The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
- 2004, Conor Fahy, “Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism”, in Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg, editors, Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies, page 404:
- 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.
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study of multiple surviving versions of the same text
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