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What is a stemma?

What is a stemma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A family tree or recorded genealogy
  2. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts
  3. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods
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Del Puppo re-examines the value of descripti, manuscripts clearly derived from other manuscripts, which, as copies, can be ruled out in a philological stemma.
Mark Spackman, prosecuting, said that they had entered into an agreement with a firm called Stemma Legal Services, based in Upper Killay, Swansea.
The next step in approaching the problem of the relation of these texts is to build a non-directional stemma.
However, each stemma lacks a corneal lens on the surface exterior to its internal sensory pigmented components.
And she remembered the genealogies of several related families, and we would paint the stemma, retelling stories about the origin of surnames over and over again.
Study of the emendations reveals a close relationship among all 24 psalters, and variant readings have provided evidence with which to construct a tentative stemma.

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