 ##  [Stemmatic Analysis](/index.php/stemmatic-analysis) 

  ##  [Stemmatic Analysis](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/stemmatic-analysis-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

A method for modelling the genealogical relationships among manuscript witnesses by identifying shared variants and errors, constructing a hypothesized diagram (stemma codicum) of descent, and using that model to locate common exemplars or archetypes while accounting for contamination (cross‑reading) between witnesses.