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stemma_codicum
stemma codicum
English
A typical stemma codicum
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