stemma codicum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/
Noun
stemma codicum (plural stemmata codicum)
- (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.
Translations
schema wherein a text’s MSS. are represented with their derivation from an archetype