The Sunday Times Colour section - Treasures Of The Vatican cover (9 September 1962)

The Sunday Times Colour section - Treasures Of The Vatican cover (9 September 1962)
Good condition - yellowing to pages due to age - light wear throughout

Cover photo of the Reliquary of the True Cross, from the Sancta Sanctorum of the Lateran (ninth century)

THE POLITICAL FEMALE - There are only 25 women MPs. But outside parliament, women play a bigger role than most men realise.
3 page feature

TREASURES OF THE VATICAN - Throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Church was not only the primary source of inspiration for artists, but also their chief patron. In consequence, the Vatican became the repository of some of the greatest works of art produced in the Christian era
7 pages

RUTLAND'S LAST STAND - England's smallest county refuses to bow the knee to the Whitehall legions who want to make it a more rural district of Leicestershire
2 page feature

A PRIDE OF PRIMA DONNAS - As the opera season opens, Desmond Shawe-Taylor discusses ten of the great sopranos of today
3 page feature
(including full page photo of Joan Sutherland; half-page photo of Leontyne Price; very small photo of Maria Callas)

YORKSHIRE - "England's largest county"
1 page feature ('mainly for children' feature)

FASHION - "Living with the elements" (clothes for our climate)
1 page men's clothing (chosen by Brinsley Black)

QUICHE LORRAINE - Cooking with Robert Carrier
1 page (with recipe)