Eventually, when he was broke, Cosimo allowed him to borrow any amount of money he wanted as long as he promised to leave him his book collection (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 remained with Cosimo. As for the Abbey of Fiesole, Cosimo had been asked by his book finder Vespasian to give up the idea of ​​finding and buying books because those worth buying were not easy to obtain (Burckhardt). Instead, he advised him to use a copyist. Cosimo agreed to pay him by the day, and Vespasian hired 45 copyists to work under him. They delivered 200 volumes to Cosimo in just twenty-two months