English Dictionary

stemma codicum

/ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/

noun

(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.

The stemma codicum is a visual representation of the relationships between different manuscript copies of a text.

意味（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.