stemmaticn.adj.
A. n.
plural stemmatics n. = stemmatology n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > study of transmission of texts
stemmatology1942
stemmatics1949
1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 889/1 Where one witness depends on two or more other witnesses, i.e. where the transmission is ‘contaminated’ and the stemma ‘convergent’, it is seldom possible to ascertain the type of interrelationship by stemmatics.
1958 B. Flower tr. P. Maas Textual Crit. 42 Errors arising in the course of transcription are of decisive significance in the study of the interrelationships of manuscripts—I may be allowed to use the term ‘stemmatics’.
1968 Reynolds & Wilson Scribes & Scholars v. 140 The classic statement of the theory of stemmatics is that of Paul Maas.
1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. 928/4 There has been a tendency to see stemmatics as something born in an instant.
1980 Early Music Gaz. Jan. 13/3 Source studies and stemmatics play an increasingly important role in musicology.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to a textual stemma or stemmata; concerning the reconstruction of the interrelationships between the readings of manuscripts of a text, esp. as stemmatic theory.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [adjective] > relating to transmission of texts
stemmatic1958
1958 B. Flower tr. P. Maas Textual Crit. 44 Such errors are so rare..that we cannot rely on being able to find one to establish every stemmatic relationship.
1968 Reynolds & Wilson Scribes & Scholars 140 In practice the stemmatic theory has serious limitations.
1980 Early Music Gaz. Jan. 13/3 Alejandro Planchart concluded that traditional stemmatic theory (after Paul Maas) best fits the text transmission of plainsong.
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