the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)
“stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology”
studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
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