stemma codicum
nounUK /ˈstɛməˈkəʊdɪkəm/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin stemma cōdicum, from stemma (“family tree”) + cōdicum (“book”, genitive plural).
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, 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.