stemma codicum

English

A typical stemma codicum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).

Pronunciation

Noun

stemma codicum (plural stemmata codicum)

  1. (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.

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