The Liber Chronicarum, meaning “Book of Chronicles”, is an illustrated encyclopedia also known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. It was compiled from older and contemporary sources by German humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440--1514) and printed by Anton Koberger. It is one of the most well-known incunable, or early printed books from the 15th century, largely because of its technically advanced and numerous illustrations.

 
The Nuremberg Chronicle (Schedel, 1493), includes the following entry for Josephus: 

Josephus the Jew, called Flavius, a priest under Matathias, the priest’s son, a highly renowned historian and in many ways an enlightened man, and a leader in the Jewish wars, in the reigns of Nero and others, was taken prisoner by Vespasian and Titus when the Jewish country was taken, and he was put in honorable service; for he was a good and excellent man, who well understood Christ. He prophesied that Nero would die shortly and that Vespasian would become emperor. Now when this happened, Vespasian released him from all service, and he was afterward taken to Rome, given citizenship, and the name of the Flavian family. And with this same emperor he lived happily for fifteen years. In that time he wrote seven books upon the conquest of the Jews, and for that he earned the honor (as Saint Jerome says) of having a column erected to him at Rome. Afterwards he also wrote a book on the antiquity of the Jews, from the beginning of the world to the time of the Jewish Wars; and many other books; all of which were translated into the Latin tongue by Rufinus the Aquileian. This Josephus was born at the time when Christ was crucified, and he lived up to the time of the Emperor Trajan and died very honorably. 

Translated by Kosta Hadavas, University of Wisconsin-Madison