The paper assesses the contribution of the editorial activities fostered by the Comitato dei Classici to the development of Greek Paleography and Codicology from the middle of the last century onwards. Only a few works deliberately deals with both paleographical and codicological aspects and/or concerns the relationship between handwriting and society in ancient and medieval times. On the contrary, it is in the field of textual transmission that the increasingly bigger attention payed to the material features of the manuscripts has produced new and important acquisitions about Greek books and scripts