Arsenije IV also commissioned Pavle Nenadović, a cleric who was by then well known as a poet, to compose a heraldic handbook, Stemmatographia (meaning "the drawing of ancestry" in Greek).

This heraldic album was modelled after a book of the same title on Slavonic heraldic bearings, engraved in 1701 by Croatian poet Pavao Ritter Vitezović (who modelled his Stemmatographia after an older version of Slavic heraldry composed by Mavro Orbini).

Arsenije IV's Stemmatographia was perceived by some as an illustrated political programme that was supposed to act both as a verification of the Serbian historical past and as a clear geopolitical statement of the lands belonging to the Serbs in the Balkans.

His intention, however, was educational, and for this work he hired three people: Hristofor Žefarović, originally from Dojran, as an artist; German-born Thomas Mesmer as an engraver; and clergyman Pavle Nenadović as a poet.

[2] After the suppression of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in 1766, his Metropolitanate of Karlovci became an autocephalous Orthodox Church.