The author presents previously unknown and insufficiently familiar documents from the last two decades of the 15th and from the beginning of the 16th century which testify to the activity of different artisans who worked in stone, cut it from the island quarries, chiselled and moulded it. At the time, stone masons and those placing orders for their products became acquainted with new Renaissance forms and decorations so that these were more and more employed on both sacral and profane construction sites. Since 1959 it has been known that Tom from Faenza, the stonemason, had an order to build decorated windows for the monastery of St Crisogonus and that he had the assistance of Bono from Milano. The author gives the complete manuscripts which pertain to these personages. The master-workers Peter Manzin, Ivan Ciklid and Daniel son of John had to bring the stone for the bell-tower in 1485 from the quarry but its erection began much later. The construction contract dates from 1498 and the task was given to master Alegreto the Great. Mention is made of master Mihovil son of Jakov, alias Puher, who chiselled stone on the island of Rab and who in 1485 was in dispute with I. Cikić and Daniel. Mihovil Puher worked with Petar Meštričević, the sculptor who fashioned the archbishop M. Valaress's tombstone, the decorative pedestal of which has recently been excavated. As the newly-unearthed manuscripts bear out, this artist lived in a house owned by the monastery of St Crisogonus. Comparing the newly-found pedestal with the doorframe on the bell-tower of St Crisogonus church, the author puts forth the hypothesis that the doors can be attributed to Meštričević. Two newly-found manuscripts shed more light on the activities of the stonemasons from the island of Korčula, employed at the time in Zadar. The decorated balcony on the Nassis house has been attributed to the famous sculptor Marko Andrijić. A document bearing the date 20. X. 1486 confirms that Andrijanić's close associate, Nikola Alegretov, worked for Nassis which lends proof to this attribution.
