Parallels between stemmatology and phylogenetics / Christopher Howe [and others] -- Problems of a highly contaminated tradition, the New Testament : stemmata of variants as a source of a genealogy for witnesses / Gerd Mink -- Kinds of variants in the manuscript tradition of the Greek New Testament / Klaus Wachtel -- How shock waves revealed successive contamination : a cardiogram of early sixteenth-century printed Dutch Bibles / August den Hollander -- The manuscript tradition of the Cligés of Chrétien de Troyes : a stemmatological approach / Margot van Mulken -- Genealogy by chance! : on the significance of accidental variation (parallelisms) / Ulrich Schmid -- Constructing initial binary trees in stemmatology / Evert Wattel -- Trouble in the trees! : variant selection and tree construction illustrated by the texts of Targum Judges / Willem F. Smelik -- Scribal variations : when are they genealogically relevant, and when are they to be considered as instances of "mouvance"? / Lene Schøsler -- The effects of weighting kinds of variants / Matthew Spencer [and others] -- Cluster analysis and the three level method in the study of the Gospels in Slavonic / Dina Mironova -- Different kinds of tradition in Targum Jonathan to Isaiah / Alberdina Houtman -- Valentin and Namelos discover their parentage : narrative elements in the family tree of an international medieval tale / Annelies Roeleveld, Erika Langbroek, and Evert Wattel