stemma codicum

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|textual criticism}} A {{l|en|schema}}, resulting from the {{l|en|stemmatics|stemmatological}} process of {{l|en|recension}}, in which all surviving {{l|en|manuscript|manuscripts}} of a given text are represented with their derivation, ''via'' intermediary {{l|en|hyparchetype|hyparchetypes}}, from a single {{l|en|archetype}}.

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