stemmatics
/stəˈmætɪks/
noun
- The study or practice of creating stemmas (family trees of texts) to trace the history and relationships of manuscripts or other documents.
- The professor's work in stemmatics helped uncover a lost version of the play.
- In her class on stemmatics, she learned how to compare different versions of a story.
- Stemmatics is a key tool for scholars who study ancient texts.