English Dictionary

stemmatics

IPA（発音記号）

/stəˈmætɪks/

名詞

不可算名詞

The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

日本語の意味

複数の現存する同一テキストの系統や伝承をたどり、失われた原文の復元を目指す学問

In my doctoral research, I used stemmatics to reconstruct the lost passages of a medieval chronicle.

博士論文の研究では、同一テキストの複数の現存写本を比較して失われた原本を復元する学問を用いて、中世の年代記の欠落部分を復元しました。

意味（1）

The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

In other words, they must carry out an operation similar to the collations required by Lachmannian stemmatics, after which they must make a critical (i.e., subjective) choice. And, when constituting the text, they do not just slavishly copy their source, obvious errors included; their editions always contain an element of interpretation.