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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, textual-criticism
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History
Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
Across languages
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