Stephen Carlson wrote:Some of the forms you cite are less common and tend to be used more in paratext settings, like titles, subscriptions, and marginal notes.
The stacked gallows in the VMS (the ones that I think are combination gallows, combined in the Greek style) also tend to be used in places where we might expect titles, or paragraph openings, like the beginnings of lines.
As I mentioned, to my eye, most of the VMS glyphs are Latin shapes, common ones. These VMS shapes are all common in Latin script: a i o y g ' m e c r s u b q l d eh k except that "i" doesn't usually lean (I have a large set of examples sampled from actual manuscripts)... but the concept of benching and stacking is more Greek than Latin and even some of the specific ways in which the double gallows chars are combined are exactly as they do it in Greek.