There are a number of manuscripts known as Codex Aureus (Golden book). Ian Heath seems to have based his Ottonian Infantry (http://warfare.uphero.com/Ancient/Dark_Ages-61-62-Ottonian_Infantry.htm) on the Codex Aureus of Echternach or Codex aureus Epternacensis (http://warfare2.netai.net/6C-11C/Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis.htm). This is dated to 1030-1050. Ian Heath's date of 983-991 fits the date of the re-used cover of the codex. Are there any better candidates to be his source?
(http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=12963&d=1401422248)
The soldiers in Herod the Great Receives the Magi (http://warfare2.netai.net/6C-11C/Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis-f18v-register3.htm) are armoured, but those in The Massacre of the Innocents (http://warfare2.netai.net/6C-11C/Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis-f19v-register2.htm), a scene that often has armoured soldiers, are not. Armed men in other scenes such as The Parable of the Vigneron Homicides (http://warfare2.netai.net/6C-11C/Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis-f77r-register2.htm) have only spears & shields and wear boots & don't have swords or the decorated collar of the soldiers of the Massacre.
MIRROR SITES
Ottonian Infantry by Ian Heath (http://warfare2.likamva.in/WRG/Dark_Ages-61-62-Ottonian_Infantry.htm)
The Codex Aureus of Echternach or Codex aureus Epternacensis (http://warfare.likamva.in/6C-11C/Codex_Aureus_Epternacensis.htm)
Druzhina
11th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare2.netai.net/11C.htm)
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:-bd
Cheers - Phil