stemma codicum
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin: stemma (“pedigree”, “geneagram”, “family tree”) + cōdicum (genitive plural form of cōdex, “book”, “manuscript”, “codex”) = “pedigree of codices”, “family tree of manuscripts”
Pronunciation
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Noun
stemma codicum (plural stemmata codicum)
- (textual criticism) A schema, resulting from the stemmatological process of recension, in which all surviving manuscripts of a given text are represented with their derivation, via intermediary hyparchetypes, from a single archetype.
Translations
schema wherein a text’s MSS. are represented with their derivation from an archetype