The volume contains textual material, most of it unpublished hitherto, for the second part of the "Republic of Scholars", which Klopstock had planned but never executed. In addition, it presents the early printed version of the "Laws of the Republic of Scholars" together with early works on the topic area "The state and class of scholars". The critical apparatus refers both to the printed first part of the work (1774) (Vol. VII,1) and the texts in this volume.