1. Prologue; 2. Stemmatological methods and techniques; 3. Parallels between stemmatology and phylogenetics (by Howe, Christopher); 4. Problems of a highly contaminated tradition: the New Testament: Stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnesses (by Mink, Gerd); 5. Kinds of variant in the manuscript tradition of the Greek New Testament (by Wachtel, Klaus); 6. How shock waves revealed successive contamination: A cardiogram of early sixteenth-century printed Dutch Bibles (by Hollander, August den); 7. The manuscript tradition of the Cliges of Chretien de Troyes: A stemmatological approach (by Mulken, Margot van); 8. Textual variation; 9. Genealogy by chance! On the significance of accidental variation (parallelisms) (by Schmid, Ulrich); 10. Constructing initial binary trees in stemmatology (by Wattel, Evert); 11. Trouble in the trees! Variant selection and tree construction illustrated by the texts of Targum Judges (by Smelik, Willem F.); 12. Scribal variations: When are they genealogically relevant - and when are they to be considered as instances of 'mouvance'? (by Schosler, Lene); 13. The effects of weighting kinds of variants (by Spencer, Matthew); 14. Cluster analysis and the Three Level Method in the study of the Gospels in Slavonic (by Mironova, Dina); 15. Different kinds of tradition in Targum Jonathan to Isaiah (by Houtman, Alberdina); 16. Valentin and Namelos discover their parentage: Narrative elements in the family tree of an international medieval tale (by Roeleveld, Annelies); 17. Index