Finally, when he was broke, Cosimo allowed him to borrow any amount of money he wanted on the condition that he promised to leave him his collection of books (Burckhardt). When Niccoli died, Cosimo inherited 800 manuscripts. (During). Most of these manuscripts were donated to the monastery of San. Marco and the abbey of Fiesole. The rest stayed with Cosimo. Regarding the Abbey of Fiesole, Vespasiano, its book finder, had asked Cosimo to abandon the idea of ​​finding and buying books, because those worth buying were not there. easy to obtain (Burckhardt). He advised him to use a copyist instead. Cosimo agreed to pay him by the day and Vespasiano hired 45 copyists to work under him. They delivered 200 volumes to Cosimo in just twenty-two months