Stemmatology

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stemmatology
       n : 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" [syn: {stemmatics}]