Every terminal glyph has a tail...

[-JKP-]

Yes, there were two things I wanted to emphasize.

1. The final VMS glyph has a tail, in the conventional style of Latin-alphabet glyphs that normally have tails.
   
2. All of the VMS terminal glyphs (that qualify in terms of shape) have these tails throughout the manuscript.
   

There are some reasons why #2 is unusual...

• There is very little variation in the VMS final characters.
  
• In the example where I mentioned the minims in Roman numeral iiii being written iiij, the VMS gives the terminal minim a tail (as is common for that glyph), BUT it is always in the upward direction, rather than some being upward and some being downward. Now, if the minims are intended to be "n" or "u" (as examples), then it would be common for it to be in the upward direction (I'm only referring to shape in Latin manuscript, not to linguistic meaning in the VMS). So, in the VMS, the minims tail is always up, in natural western languages, both up and down are common.
  

Below is an example of c. 1451 Gothic script (Latin language) in a style very similar to the script on 116v. It has many shapes in common with the VMS such as

• the 9 abbrev. at the beginnings and ends of words,
  
• -ris (m) and -tis suffixes on words (but other glyphs, like m in the Latin alphabet, that would have a descending tail are not represented), and
  
• on the last line, habitiiin with the tail arcing in the upward direction (very common abbrev. for words ending in "um" "am" "un" or "an").
  

But there is far more variation of terminal glyphs (and glyphs in general) and the order of glyphs in the Latin script than there is in the VMS.