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Original vs Stemmatics - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between original and stemmatics

is that original is original while stemmatics is the study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.

original

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
    • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
  • (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
  • (label) Newly created.
  • (label) Fresh, different.
  • (label) Pioneering.
  • (label) Having as its origin.

    • Synonyms

    * (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * derivative * reproduction * simile

    Derived terms

    * originally * original sin

    Related terms

    * origin * originality * originate * originative * aboriginal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
    • This manuscript is the original
  • A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
    • You’re an original
  • (archaic) An eccentric

    • Synonyms

    * autograph * prototype

    Antonyms

    * copy * remake * reproduction

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    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The study of multiple surviving versions of the same text with the aim of reconstructing a lost original.
  • * 2004 , Conor Fahy, "Old and New in Italian Textual Criticism", page 404 in'' Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, & Peter L. Shillingsburg (eds.), ''Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * stemma