'stemmatology' definitions:

Definition of 'stemmatology'

(from WordNet)
noun
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 cladistic analysis); "stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology"; "transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics" [syn: stemmatology, stemmatics]