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This section examines the key concepts of stemma and archetype in depth. A stemma represents the genealogical tree of manuscript witnesses of a text, with the archetype as their most recent common ancestor. Defining and constructing a stemma accurately is important for textual criticism but also complicated by issues like contaminated witnesses. The concepts are analyzed historically and definitions are provided.

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