Table of Contents

1. Prologue (by Reenen, Pieter van); 2. Part I: Methodological Approaches; 3. Cladistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann (by Salemans, Ben J.P.); 4. Computer-Assisted Stemmatic Analysis and 'Best-Text' Historical Editing (by Robinson, Peter); 5. Shock Waves in Text Traditions (by Wattel, Evert); 6. Clustering Stemmatological Trees (by Wattel, Evert); 7. Weighted Formal Support of a Pedigree (by Wattel, Evert); 8. The Analysis of Early Islamic Traditions and Chains of Transmission (by Reenen, Daan van); 9. Part II: Subject-Related Observations; 10. Medieval Dossiers and Modern Stemmas (by Voorbij, Hans); 11. Textual Incompatibility and Many-Pronged Stemmata (by Veder, William R.); 12. Part III: Applications to Manuscript Traditions; 13. Which Variants are Useful in Discovering the Deep Structure of the Manuscript Tradition of a Text? (by Uthemann, Karl-Heinz); 14. From Variant to Pedigree in the Charroi de Nimes (by Reenen, Pieter van); 15. Index

Reviews

We have only begun to scratch the surface of the many ways the computer could help our linguistic research. Books like this open our eyes to the possibilities. Anyone with an interest in the field of manuscript traditions could enjoy and benefit from the fresh perspectives presented in this book.
*Alan Buseman in “Notes on Linguistics 83, 1998”*