Goldsmithing in late medieval Split is one of the less studied segments of national goldsmithing heritage from the 14th and 15th centuries. While the body of preserved goldsmiths' work has received somewhat more attention in previous studies, only modest research has been done on the goldsmiths of Split at that time. A more systematic investigation of the archives of the Old Split Municipality, parts of which are kept in the State Archives in Zadar and the Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, has resulted in expanding the existing 14th-century index of goldsmiths and in increasing the number of archival notices about them. The results of this research are presented in this paper, which collects all previously known and newly discovered documents about some thirty goldsmiths recorded in the archival sources for the period 1341-1400, based on which the previous knowledge about them has been synthesized. Since the archives of the 14th-century notarial office in Split are fragmentarily preserved, the earliest data on goldsmiths are found only from the 1340s, when goldsmiths Matul, Dujam Matulov, Milgost Poznanov, Janucije, Zanjolo, Maroje and Perusa are recorded in Split. In the second half of the century, one finds the goldsmiths Vukac, Vukac Kranislavov, Klapo, Vukac called Stameta, Ivan Jakovljev (Jakobic), Juraj, Juraj Ivanov from Zagreb, Jakov Rolandov from Piacenza, Pavle from the Albanian Drisht, Ivan, Ivan Gerardinov from Pesaro and his father Gerardin Ivanov, Kolan Ivanov Parkosevic from Zadar, Radin Petkovic, Radohna Pet(i)kovic, Jarko Radmusevic, Jarko Radoslavic from Imota, Budislav Dragojevic, Matko Radoslavic from Dubrovnik, Rados Voletic, Kuzma and Matej from Pozega, Krsul Stipanovic from Zadar, Nikola Marinov Stasolic, Nikola, Nikola Markov (Markovic), and Petar Kraninov (Kranojevic) Nepek. Most goldsmiths are recorded in only a few documents, in which they mostly appear in the context of private affairs or as witnesses. Unfortunately, notices on their business are extremely rare, which makes it impossible to draw conclusions about their goldsmithing activity, and thus engage in a more detailed analysis of the development of the goldsmith's trade. Nevertheless, some documents are more directly related to the activities of individual goldsmiths and provide a partial insight into some aspects of the trade. In this context, apprenticeship contracts are extremely important, as they clearly testify to the transmission of goldsmith's skills to new generations; but so are the contracts on business associations and loans concluded for the purpose of gaining joint profit. Although the preserved documents mainly refer to the private affairs of goldsmiths and their appearance as witnesses, they help us assemble a corpus of goldsmiths and determine their chronological parameters, and thus to lay the foundations for some future, more comprehensive research of late medieval goldsmithing in Split.
