Ekspensa, expens

expenses; the term referred to all kinds of court expenditures, e.g., for the court kitchen, clothing, or payment for servants, as well as travel expenses.

Source: National Archives in Krakow, Zygmunt Gloger Collection, ref. no. 345, [Regestry kuchenne Józefa Sapiehy].

See more: B. Popiołek, Kitchen Expenses. Food Products in the Lists of Expenses of Noble Courts as an Element of Cultural Changes in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 18th Century, [in] The World of Things. Considerations on the Standard of Living and the Meaning of Movable Property in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Edited by Bożena Popiołek, Urszula Kicińska, Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska, Natalia Cisowska, Kamila Stankiewicz, Adrian Piotr Karpowicz, Kraków 2022, pp. 13-34; eadem, Między kuchnią i spiżarnią. Magnackie regestry wydatków kuchennych w osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej, Warsaw 2025.