Are there any copies of Alexius Comnenus' letter to Robert of Flanders requesting help against the Seljuk Turks?

by pominator

I'm currently looking at the causes of the Crusades and the letter is mentioned a lot but I cannot find the primary source.

Xuial

You can find an English translation in the following article: Joranson, Einar. “The Problem of the Spurious Letter of Emperor Alexius to the Court of Flanders.” The American Historical Review 55, no. 4 (1950): 811–32.

In general, the letter has been taken to be a fake designed to rally support in the early twelfth century against Byzantium. The scholarship here is mostly in German and I haven't personally read it so I won't refer to it, but recently the idea that it was based upon a real letter that Alexios sent has been proposed: Frankopan, Peter. The First Crusade: The Call from the East. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012, 60.