the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations bet more..the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis)(noun.cognition)
(Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence (noun.cognition)