The 12 th volume of Rist's Collected Works contains poems on the deaths of Martin Opitz and Charles I of England along with 80 other poems for honor, weddings, funerals and occasional writings that were not included in Rist's prepared collections or that were completed after the publication of the New German Parnassus (1652).

Autorentext
Alfred Noe, Universität Wien, Österreich; Hans-Gert Roloff, FU Berlin.