STUDIES IN STEMMATOLOGY -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Prologue -- State of the Art -- Computational Analysis -- LachmannRevisited? -- Graphs and Trees -- Auxiliary Disciplines to a Preliminary Discipline? -- Methods put into Practice -- Conclusion -- PART I. Methodological Approaches -- Ciadistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann -- 0. Introduction and Summary -- 1. Theoretical Text-Genealogical Insights -- 1.1. The four basic text-genealogical rules -- 1.1.1. The determination of genealogical variants: the first rule -- 1.1.2. The presentation of the used variants: the second rule -- 1.1.3. The width of the place of variation: the third rule -- 1.1.4. The use of type-2 variations: the fourth rule -- 1.1.5. The implications of the four genealogical rules shown by an example -- 1.2. Can genealogical variants be recognised with the aid of the computer? -- 1.2.1. The second ad hoc rule on text-genealogical significant word types: words in rhyming position, verbs and substantives -- 1.2.2. Eleven characteristics of genealogical variants -- 2. The 'Lanseloet' Genealogical Software applied to the Yvain Texts -- 2.1. Description of the 'Lanseloet' genealogical software to find type-2 variations -- 2.2. The application of the 'Lanseloet' software to the Yvain texts -- 2.3. The impossibility of building the Yvain chain from type-2 formulas -- 3. Application of PAUP to the Yvain Text Versions -- 3.1. Systematics and text genealogy -- 3.3. Cladistics and the principle of parsimony -- 3.4. PAUP-3 -- 3.5. Running PAUP-3 with the selected genealogical variants -- 3.6. Comparing the PAUP trees with the Yvain stemma of Micha -- 3.7. Short evaluation of using PAUP and cladistics for text-genealogical matters -- 4. Final Remarks and Perspectives -- References.

APPENDIX A: ATranslation of Part of Salemans (1989) on Parallelisms -- APPENDIX B: Criticism of Dees et al 1988-89 (an Addendum to 1.1.5) -- APPENDIX C: Variation Formulas and Original Verses (see fig. 4) -- APPENDIX D: A Translation of Parts of Salemans (1987) on Ciadistics -- 1. Introduction -- 3. Biological genealogical research: classification, taxonomy, phylogenetics and cladistics -- 3.1. Building blocks of relationship structures: characters and character states -- 3.2. An intermediate balance: the significance for cladistic textual criticism -- 3.3. The Wagner network algorithm: the structure of a cladogram -- 3.3.1. Building Wagner networks with distances between character states -- 3.3.2. Example of working with the Wagner network algorithm -- 3.3.3. Rooting ('orienting') the Wagner network ('chain') into a c ladogram ('stemma -- 3.3.4. The length of a Wagner network: criterion for reliability and guard againstcontamination and parallelism -- Computer-Assisted Stemmatic Analysis and 'Best-Text' Historical Editing -- 1. New tools of computer-assisted stemmatics: transcription, collation, analysis -- 2. The use of these methods: their success -- 3. The limits of computer methods: contamination and cladistic analyses -- 4. The limits of stemmatics: manuscripts close to the original -- 5. The manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue -- 6. An editor's use of this: best-text historical editing -- 7. How 'definitive' is a best-text historical edition? -- References -- ShockWaves in Text Traditions Cardiograms of the Medieval Literature -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Material -- 2. A Zero-Centred Distance Distribution Function -- 3. Spreading and Levelling the Similarity Score -- a) The design choice involving the independent variable. -- b) The design choice concerning the scope of the spread -- 4. Score Comparison and Shock Waves.

5. Some Final Remarks -- 6. Application of the Algorithms on Manuscript Traditions - Results -- References -- Clustering in Stemmatological Trees How to Handle a Large Number of Version -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Material -- 2. Zero-Centred Evaluation Functions -- 2.1. Similarity score -- 2.2. Centrality score -- 3. Centrality and Periphery -- 4. Lumping Manuscripts -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Weighted Formal Support of a Pedigree -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material -- 3. Construction of an Initial Tree -- 3.1. Similarity score -- 3.2. The initial tree -- 4. Stepwise Refinement -- 4.1. Exchanging attachments -- 4.2. Dichotomy support -- General -- Design choice -- General -- Design choice -- General -- 5. Edge Contraction -- 6. Final Remarks -- References -- Appendix A: Tree representations and exchanging attachments -- Appendix B: Implementation of the support function -- The Analysis of Early Islamic Traditions and Chains of Transmission -- 1. A brief introduction to early Islamic traditions -- 2. Authenticity -- 3. Description and Analysis: Theory -- 4. Description and Analysis: Practice -- 5. Stemmatological Problems -- References -- PART II. Subject-Related Observations -- Medieval Dossiers and Modern Stemmas An Exploration of Manuscripts of the Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelein -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The Corpus of Alexander Manuscripts -- 2. Walther Boer's Edition of the Epistola -- 3. Selection and Classification: Support from the Transmission Context -- 4. Dossiers: Texts and Transmission -- 5. Stemmas of a Historiographical Dossier -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Textual Incompatibility and Many-Pronged Stemmata -- 1. TheScetePaterikon -- 2. The Treatise On the Letters -- 3. Incompatible Texts -- 4. Causes of Incompatibility -- 5. Textual Palaeontology -- 6. Multiple Transcription and Many-Pronged Stemmata -- References.

PART III. Applications to Manuscript Traditions -- Which Variants are Useful in Discovering the Deep Structure of the Manuscript Tradition of a Text? Contra a so-called Essentially Quantitative Approach -- 1. The Main Difference: The Missing Qualitative Evaluation -- 2. The Three Level Method: some pros and cons -- 3. Status quaestionis - Illustrated by an Fictional Example -- 4. A Test of an Edition as Paradigm -- 4.1. The editor's stemma -- 4.2. Distinguishing types of variants -- 4.3. Application to the paradigm -- References -- From Variant to Pedigree in the Charroi de Nîmes A Typology of Variants -- 1. Type-2 Oppositions in the Manuscripts of the Four Families of the Charroi de Nîmes -- 2. A Set of External Parameters for Comparing the Manuscripts of the Charroi de Nîmes -- 2.1. Codicology -- 2.2. Cycles -- 2.3.Mutilation -- 2.4. Handwriting -- 2.5. Relatedness of Hands - Atelier -- 3. Internal Parameters -- 3.1. Local variants -- 3.1.1. Spelling and phonology (level 1) -- 3.1.2. Morphology (level 2) -- 3.1.3. Content differences in related passages (level 3) -- 3.1.4. Relatedness versus nonrelatedness (level 4) -- 3.2. Non-local variants -- 3.3. Interpolations and lacunas -- 3.4. Synthesis -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1: Variations of form and meaning of the passage vss. 1081 to 1215, i.e., the only passage containing all manuscripts of the Charroi -- Appendix 2:Type-2oppositions -- Index.