stemmatology

Noun

1.

stemmatology - 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 cladisitc analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" Synonyms: stemmatics

arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, stemmatics