hyparchetype

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ archetype.

Noun

hyparchetype (plural hyparchetypes)

  1. (textual criticism) A manuscript from which a family of texts is derived by copying; an intermediary node between the archetype (protograph) and a set of surviving manuscripts in a stemma codicum.
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