English Dictionary

stemmatics

/stəˈmætɪks/

noun

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

Stemmatics is a branch of textual criticism that aims to reconstruct the original text of a document by analyzing its stemma.

意味（1）

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

In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.