In the first post in this thread, readers may have noticed that I rotated the EVA-l character to make "a". Just in case it doesn't look like "a" to everybody (I don't know how many are familiar with this form of "a"), I thought I would post an example from a 15th century manuscript. This is the word "Amen":
Now... we don't know if the VMS is a cipher alphabet, but one of things I have noticed fairly frequently in medieval substitution ciphers (and also modern ciphers), is that there are often a few glyphs that are rotated versions of recognizable characters, changed only moderately to create a new shape that looks different enough but is not super-hard to remember. Even Hildegard von Bingen's cipher had a few rotated and mirrored glyphs.
Now... we don't know if the VMS is a cipher alphabet, but one of things I have noticed fairly frequently in medieval substitution ciphers (and also modern ciphers), is that there are often a few glyphs that are rotated versions of recognizable characters, changed only moderately to create a new shape that looks different enough but is not super-hard to remember. Even Hildegard von Bingen's cipher had a few rotated and mirrored glyphs.