Stemmatografia, known by its full name Stemmatographia sive Armorum Illyricorum delineatio, descriptio et restitutio (English: Stemmatography, or the sketch, description and revival of the Illyrian coats of arms) is a heraldic essay written and illustrated by Pavao Ritter Vitezović, and originally published in 1701.
[2] There he also claims that the work is a "testament to his dear homeland, because in the published arms the glow of the homeland radiates", personally hoping that a luckier progeny will embrace "Croatia in all its parts again whole" and "all of Illyricum which will unite with Croatia in love and devotion", demonstrating patriotic and somewhat Romanticist tendencies.
[4] Vitezović himself stated his intentions are to disclose every individual coat of arms of each kingdom, province, notable city and fortress of the Illyricum, as well as their customs, nature, and movement of clans.
He intended to publish a separate book detailing every noble lineage, including those who have descended from them in other European lands.
[1] Forty years after its original Vienna release, the book was translated by the monk Hristofor Žefarović[5] into the Slavo-Serbian,[6] under the orders of Serbian patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović.