1. Prologue (by Reenen, Pieter van); 2. Part I: Methodological Approaches; 3. Cladistics or the Resurrection of the Method of Lachmann (by Salemans, Ben J.P.); 4. Computer-Assisted Stemmatic Analysis and 'Best-Text' Historical Editing (by Robinson, Peter); 5. Shock Waves in Text Traditions (by Wattel, Evert); 6. Clustering Stemmatological Trees (by Wattel, Evert); 7. Weighted Formal Support of a Pedigree (by Wattel, Evert); 8. The Analysis of Early Islamic Traditions and Chains of Transmission (by Reenen, Daan van); 9. Part II: Subject-Related Observations; 10. Medieval Dossiers and Modern Stemmas (by Voorbij, Hans); 11. Textual Incompatibility and Many-Pronged Stemmata (by Veder, William R.); 12. Part III: Applications to Manuscript Traditions; 13. Which Variants are Useful in Discovering the Deep Structure of the Manuscript Tradition of a Text? (by Uthemann, Karl-Heinz); 14. From Variant to Pedigree in the Charroi de Nimes (by Reenen, Pieter van); 15. Index