They contain information on both poets and their poetic work,[1] and are written both in prose and verses making the tezkire genre unique.
[2] A valuable source of information for today's scholars, they also present a type of ego-document due to the combination of objective with subjective material.
It narrated the work and life of 241 poets and was very well received and supported by the Ottoman high social circles.
[2] A distinguished tezkire is the Tezkiretü'ş-Şuara (Memoirs of the Poets) of Latifî of Kastamonu (1491-1582), the second in chronology[6] and is the one with most extant copies (91).
[2] The 4th tezkire is the one from Ahdi of Baghdad, of Persian origin, and is named Gülşen-i Şuara (Rosebed of Poets).