A family tree or recorded genealogy / In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts / One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

plural of stemma

(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.

plural of stemma

The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

Synonym of stemmatics

plural of stemma codicum

In terms of stemmatology.

Relating to stemmatology.

plural of stemmatologist