separative error

Noun

1. An error indicating that one manuscript has not been copied from another.
   • 1975, Robert Krueger (ed.), The Poems of Sir John Davies, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Commentary, p. 318, Although the three extant manuscripts show different states of revision, no one descends from another; each has...
   • 2012, Marko Halonen, Stemmatology of a 16ᵗʰ Century Chronicle, Master’s Thesis, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, p. 16, A separative error can reveal [to] us that a...