Table of contents
Prologuevii
Stemmatological methods and techniques
Parallels between stemmatology and phylogenetics3
Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament: Stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnesses13
Kinds of variant in the manuscript tradition of the Greek New Testament87
How shock waves revealed successive contamination: A cardiogram of early sixteenth-century printed Dutch Bibles99
The manuscript tradition of the Cligés of Chrétien de Troyes: A stemmatological approach113
Textual variation
Genealogy by chance! On the significance of accidental variation (parallelisms)127
Constructing initial binary trees in stemmatology145
Trouble in the trees! Variant selection and tree construction illustrated by the texts of Targum Judges167
Scribal variations: When are they genealogically relevant - and when are they to be considered as instances of 'mouvance'?207
The effects of weighting kinds of variants227
Cluster analysis and the Three Level Method in the study of the Gospels in Slavonic241
Different kinds of tradition in Targum Jonathan to Isaiah269
Valentin and Namelos discover their parentage: Narrative elements in the family tree of an international medieval tale285
Index305
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