The standard form of describing linguodidactic sources is proposed in the article, first of all, the experience of describing various documents, in particular the experience of creating a form for the standardized description of linguistic works (B. Colomb and A. Pelfren), and secondly, the needs of researchers in the history of linguodidactics. Examples are given of filling in this form information on textbooks of the Russian language for the Poles M. Lubovitch, F.J. Makulsky and M.G. Zubakovich (XVIII century).