stemmatics
BRANCH OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP, PHILOLOGY, AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Text criticism; Text criticsm; Lower criticism; Lower Criticism; Textual Criticism; Stemmatology; Stemmatics; Stemmology; Textual critics; Critical edition; Textual critic; Critical text; Internal evidence; External evidence; New Testament textual criticism; Eclecticism in textual criticism; Stemma codicum; Critical editions; Edition (textual criticism); Textual critical methods; Emendation (textual); Lachmann's method
[st?'mat?ks]
¦ plural noun [treated as sing.] the branch of study concerned with analysing the relationship between surviving variant versions of a text, especially so as to reconstruct a lost original.