What is "tezkire"

Tezkire , from Arabic tadhkirah meaning "something that causes one to remember" or "memorandum", is a form of bibliographical dictionary or bibliographical compendium which flourished in the 16th-century Ottoman Empire. The most known are the tezkires of poets, but they also dealt with government officials of artists in general. First seen in the early Arab literature before the 10th century, they came into the Persian literature and later into the Ottoman one.