stemmatology

Noun stemmatology has 1 sense

• stemmatology(n = noun.cognition) stemmatics - 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"
is a kind of arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts